Observation-only management of early stage, medically inoperable lung cancer: Poor outcome

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Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1155-1158

  McGarry, Ronald C ^a   Song, Guobin ^a   Des Rosiers, Paul ^a   Timmerman, Robert ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Medically inoperable; Non small cell lung cancer; Observation; Radiotherapy; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; INOPERABLE CANCER; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036206079     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.121.4.1155     Document Type: Article

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